I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1164 - 14,000 HP and 72 Reputation This Coming Week on Hive, and 20,000 Blurt Power Surpassed on Blurt - Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, October 4, 2025

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 6 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As I figured, I'll easily surpass 14,000 Hive Power before the end of this coming week, which was made possible my my October HPUD powerup, and by the fact that I reached 13,900 HP by the middle of last week. I presently have fewer than 50 HP to go to attain 14,000 HP, which will come quite quickly indeed. My HP is growing notably more quickly since my last mega-powerup on the September 1st HPUD, which is lovely to see. I'm just hoping that it's increasing quickly enough to achieve my year-end goal of 15,000 Hive Power before the end of the year.

This coming week I should also reach one of my other year-end goals, a reputation of 72, and quite a bit sooner than expected, which is pretty great indeed. I'm still deciding whether I want to stop tracking reputation, and remove it from my goals, since it's going to keep growing more and more slowly the higher in level I go, unless I get more large upvotes, which is not easy to predict.

I'm happy to say that I also just crossed the threshold of 20,000 Blurt Power on Blurt, and all from my daily posts and curation. Ben (@benthomaswwd / @benthomasuk) has been investing externally into Blurt, and he's already past 30,000 Blurt Power, which is excellent. The both of us are giving 100% upvotes on posts published in the We Are Alive Tribe on Blurt, and I'm doing the same on our Blurt community account (though its BP is still very modest). I also reblog these posts on both accounts as well, to help give our members more traction with their publications.

We're working to offer as much value as possible to those who choose to publish posts in our Blurt community, as we endeavor to do here on Hive. We've still got to get a lot more Blurt Power on the community account, so that its upvotes become more useful. The number of subscribers, post publishers, and engagers in our Blurt community continue to rise, with presently 29 subscribers, and 24 published posts. Not bad, and we're just getting the ball rolling.

I have just about enough liquid BLURT again to send another chunk to Hive Engine, to add to a new SWAP.BLURT diesel/liquidity pool, probably SWAP.BLURT:SWAP.LTC this time around. At the moment, I have fee-earning liquidity in two SWAP.BLURT pools, SWAP.HIVE:SWAP.BLURT and SWAP.BLURT:SWAP.BTC, and it's now time to add a new pool to the mix. The benefits to adding liquidity to the SWAP.BLURT pools are multiple, and they extend across both blockchains, so I'll keep going until I have solid liquidity in all of them, which will allow me to leverage and grow assets in a wonderfully cross-blockchain manner.

Yesterday, Saturday, after finishing up my Hive tasks quite early, by around 11AM, I rested a bit, and I prepared for a session that was scheduled for 1:30PM. We started the session on time, it went beautifully well, and we wrapped it up by around 7PM, so quite a long session indeed. After the session ended, I did some asset management, and my @aliveandthriving comment moderation, before heading down to Tutu's to meet up with Harmony after our session, to share some chips and salsa, a little rice, some durian, some lirikoi/passionfruit, and some enjoyable conversation. After spending some time with Harmony, I finally returned to the Flow House, quite late, around 8:45PM, to get into going through my notifications. Since I started so late, I wasn't able to get through them all before I had to stop around 11:30PM, to do some asset management, then to go to bed by around 12AM. I woke up about 7AM, having slept well, doing more asset management, going to make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, then returning to the Flow House to write this post. It's now just after 1:15PM, so it's quite a good time to wrap this up, so that I may get to my other few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update tomorrow morning, and the next iteration of these posts tomorrow afternoon! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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